Biographical Profiles of Nur Laiq and Fabrice Aidan in House Oversight Document

OUP CORRECTED PROOE - FINAL, 12/9/2014, SPi About the Editors xv NUR LAIQ Nur Laiq is the author of Talking to Arab Youth: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt and Tunisia. Nur focuses on the transitions in the Middle East and North Africa, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and issues related to US foreign policy. She has worked as a senior policy analyst at the International Peace Institute in New York, where she headed the Arab Youth Project. She previously worked with Labour Party members of parliament in London on foreign policy and on the European Commission's Middle East desk in Brussels. She has also worked with refugees via United Nations Refugee Agency in New Delhi. Nur has an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University. FABRICE AIDAN Fabrice Aidan graduated from the Ecoles de Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), Paris, School of Management in 1998. He also holds a degree in Arabic and Islamic studies from the Sorbonne University (Paris IV). In 2000, he joined the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and became a permanent member of the Foreign Service. He was first assigned to the Department of North Africa and the Middle East. In 2002, he served as a Diplomat at the French Mission to the United Nations in New York. In 2003, the Government of France seconded him to the United Nations. In this capacity, he served first in Gaza/Jerusalem as the special assistant of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle Peace Process. In 2005, he moved to UN headquarters in New York as special assistant and senior political adviser to UN Under-Secretary- General and Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Terje Rod-Larsen, dealing with the Middle East. In 2013, after ten years at the United Nations, he returned to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as senior adviser to the Director of North Africa and the Middle East. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023147